Which sport did astronaut Alan Shepard famously play on the Moon during Apollo 14?

Alan Shepard played golf on the Moon during Apollo 14 in 1971, attaching a makeshift golf club head to the handle of a sample-collection tool and swinging at two golf balls he had smuggled aboard. Because the Moon has much weaker gravity than Earth and no air to slow a ball down, one of his shots reportedly sailed an impressively long distance for such an improvised swing.

Baseball and javelin throw were not activities performed on the Moon; astronauts stuck to simple experiments and tasks suited to their bulky spacesuits, and golf's simple swinging motion made it a fitting, low-effort novelty for Shepard to attempt.

Because he was wearing a stiff, pressurized spacesuit, Shepard could really only manage a one-handed, awkward swing, yet even that limited motion combined with lunar physics was enough to send the ball impressively far, a fun demonstration of how different physics feels away from Earth.